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Averages: number of stacks in each record Bike_Count: number of magnet clicks Hpos: calculated array giving horizontal displacement
(m) for the profile Pressure: digitized pressure record relative to first measurement
in bits. Needs to be multiplied by -0.1078 meters/bit Xinc: Volts/bit for converting values (not normally useful) Yinc: Seconds/sample - used for calculating associated time
array and for calculating filter parameters. data: matrix of the records. Each column is a complete waveform.
In this case there are 494 records of 1000 samples length. dday: decimal day of year (time) each record was acquired. time: calculated travel time array for plotting and calculating
purposes.